Solid Waste Pollution
The order of waste reduction methods from least energy required to most energy required.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
This pollution source emerges one specific place, like a sewage pipe.
What is point source?
Fossil fuel combustion, deforestation, and transportation are all examples of ____________ sources of Carbon Dioxide.
What is anthroprogenic?
This pathogen's vector is mosquitoes and it is primarily found in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Malaria?
This greenhouse gas' main anthroprogenic source is agricultural practices.
What is nitrous oxide?
This is the digestion of waste that releases methane.
What is Anaerobic Digestion?
Acid rain causes these effects in trees. Name one.
What is leaves and needles turn brown or yellow, leaves and needles fall off the tree, tree growth is slowed, seed production/the reproductive rate of trees may decrease.
This type of energy source is likely to result in acid deposition/rain.
What is coal combustion?
This pathogen is a bacteria which is often transmitted due to unsanitary drinking water and causes vomiting.
What is cholera?
This chemical compound reacts with volatile organic compounds and other compounds in the presence of sunlight to form photochemical smog in the troposphere.
What is nitrogen oxide?
This condition is worsened by the inhalation of photochemical smog. It is also linked to exposure to pollutants released during incineration of plastic waste.
What is Asthma?
What are Nitrates?
This act established cap-and-trade and regulated the amount of lead in fuels.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This is a virus transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, and it is most prevalent in South and Central America and has fewer cases outside that area.
What is Zika?
This technology would cause a massive reduction in photochemical smog.
What are catalytic converters?
Solid waste disposal site built with liners and leachate collection systems to avoid groundwater contamination.
What is a sanitary landfill?
An ecologist examining several different ponds discovered that in one pond all the frogs were female. This type of pollutant led to the all-female population.
What is an endocrine disruptor?
This material neutralizes the effects of acid rain.
What is limestone?
This is a bacterial infection that infects the lungs. It is spread from breathing in the bacteria from the bodily fluids of an infected person.
What is tuberculosis?
Pollutants accumulate in tissues and lead to predators in higher trophic levels having higher levels of toxins (like Mercury).
What is biomaginification?
The kind of pollutants that bioaccumulate in tissues. A.k.a. forever chemicals
What are Persistent Organic Pollutants?
This component of photochemical smog peaks in the sunlight.
What is ozone?
What is the anthropogenic phenomenon that has increased the ranges of mosquitoes?
What is anthropogenic global warming?